In this episode of "Pushing the Limits" I talk to Dr Rob Silverman, Chiropractor, clinical nutritionist, author, international speaker and functional medicine practitioner, founder of Westchester Integrated Health about the gut. Your microbiome is is the key to your immune system, over 80% of your immune system is in the gut.  We do a deep dive into: What is a healthy microbiome SIBO Leaky Gut and how to heal it Gall bladder health, pancreatic enzymes and the role of stomach acid. How...

In this weeks episode I sit down with Dr Ben Weitz, a brilliant chiropractor and functional medicine practitioner and gut health expert. Get ready for an enlightening one-off podcast episode that delves into the intricate world of gut health and its profound impact on your overall well-being. Join us as we sit down with Dr. Ben Weitz, an expert in Functional Medicine, to explore a wide range of fascinating topics that are essential for your health journey. In this special podcast episode,...

In this weeks episode I have the world leading expert on NITRIC OXIDE to guest Dr Nathan Bryan. Dr Bryan has published over 100 scientific papers on Nitric Oxide and is the author of FUNCTIONAL NITRIC OXIDE NUTRITION alongside 4 other books. Dr Bryan has made many seminal discoveries in the field. These discoveries and findings have transformed the development of safe and effective functional bioactive natural products in the treatment and prevention of human disease and provide the basis...

As you age, your bones lose density.This leads to osteoporosis,falls and fractures. In this week's episodes I speak to Perry Eckert on bone strength and how to avoid,prevent and reverse bone loss through specific weight training using the "Osteostrong" model.  In this episode you will learn:  How to do a non-invasive, drug-free approach to help improve  bone density and overall skeletal strength. Designed to benefit various age groups and backgrounds, particularly those at risk of...

Ever Wondered how well you were doing on the ageing front. Are the lifestyle interventions, the fitness regime, the supplements, the good foods that you're eating all making a difference to how fast you age? In this interview, Ryan Smith CEO of trudiagnostic takes me through my own personal age report, the exceptional, the good the bad and the ugly it's all here. We discussed DNA methylation, Dunedin pace study, immune age, extrinsic and intrinsic and even how my genes are in relation to ...

This week I have the indomitable Michele Hughes to guest who runs the "Timeless and Ageless" podcast where she interviews leading experts in anti-ageing to entrepreneurship to health and fitness.  Michele has tapped into the extraordinary knowledge of so many exceptional achievers and continues to learn and develop herself and share with her audiences. We both share a passion for longevity, anti-aging, entrepreneurship and learning from the best in the world and in this interview Michele...

This is a powerful episode, its very raw and rather emotional but I have Aleisha Pienaar to guest who shares her story of her Dad who had a heart attack last year at the tender age of 53 and  who was, after being revived,  left fighting for his life in ICU. Aleisha had read my book "Relentless" and  had attended one of my speeches where I talked about my Mum and Dad's stories, It  was in her time of need that these stories became the catalyst  for her to fight hard for her Dad. The ICU team...

In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" Lisa gets to talk to a world leading anti-aging and longevity expert Dr Bill Lawrence who himself is 77 years old but has the telomere length (we explain what that aging biomarker in the show) of someone in their thirties. Dr. Lawrence has a Jurisprudence Degree (UCLA-Law), an MS in Psychology and a Ph.D. in Nutrition. Since 1990 his focus has been on slowing and reversing human biological aging. He has developed numerous science-based protocols...

In this episode I interview Nutritionist and functional Medicine Clinician, Thiamine Expert Elliot Overton on Thiamine Protocols and nutritional deficiencies and how Thiamine could be a key nutrient that can help in many many diseases from: Multiple Sclerosis Kidney Disease Heart Disease Stroke Parkinson Diabetes Beriberi Anxiety Liver Disease Coeliac Disease Fibromyalgia Peripheral Neuropathy Migraine Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Autism  In this episode you will learn: The basics of...

In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" we have the incredible Dr Matthew Phillips who calls himself a Metabolic Neurologist. After spending over 15 years studying and working in clinical practice with patients with neurodegenerative conditions and cancer etc he decided to extend. his approach from just using medications to manage the disease by diving into the study of the metabolic dysfunction that underlies many of these ailments or that contributes to these diseases. He uses these...

In this week's episode of "Pushing the Limits" I interview the incredible Dr Ross Pelton AKA the Natural Pharmacist. Ross Pelton is a pharmacist, nutritionist, author and a health educator who is widely recognized as the world's leading authority on drug-induced nutrient depletions. He was named one of the top 50 most influential pharmacists in the United States by American Druggist magazine for his work in Natural Medicine. He is the author of 13 books including his latest one which we do...

In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" I get to interview my good friend and world class motivational speaker, NZ speaker of the year Cam Calkoen. Now Cam just happens to have cerebral palsy but he has never let this apparent problem hold him back from anything. From climbing Kilimanjaro to being a world class athlete to becoming one of the most well known and loved inspirational speakers of our time (despite a speech impediment)  Anything he sets his mind to he achieves and in this...

In this episode of "Pushing the Limits" I interview the founder and inventor the QRI Laser Bonnie Brandes a former teacher of children with learning disabilities, autism, down syndrome, dyslexia, ADHD, cerebral palsy who discovered the benefit of reintegrating primitive reflexes and the help and relief this bought the children and their families. Bonnie then went on a journey to do it quicker and better and rather than  just using touch and acupuncture she ended up inventing a device to...

In this episode I interview the incredible Dr Dave Jenkins, a Bredeson Protocol trained practitioner, GP, Founder of Surfaid International and a man on a mission to help individuals, families, and communities improve health outcomes through effective and achievable evidence based methods. His vision is to resolve the root cause of illness and reduce barriers to true health through education, coaching, and shared care scalable models He is a specialist in cognitive decline.   In this...

This week episode of "Pushing the Limits" Lisa interviews internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases, Dr. Dale Bredesen.   Alzheimer's disease is one of the most significant global health threats we face today. It is an ailment that, as our population ages, is forecasted to become a worldwide epidemic. To understand the magnitude of the problem, the COVID-19 pandemic has already led to the death of over one million Americans, however, 50 times more of...

This week I had a luminary in the longevity and anti-aging medicine field to guest, Phil Micans is the editor of Aging Matters Magazine and Founder of IAS Group for Anti-Aging. He is an expert in many areas of longevity but todays main topic was Bioregulator Peptides, an incredibly exciting continuation to our series on Peptide therapies.   A bioregulator peptide is a short chain of amino acids that functions as a regulatory molecule in biological systems. These peptides are typically...

In this weeks podcast we have double board certified Dr Suzanne Turner of Vines Medical to guest. Dr Turner practices cellular, longevity and Performance Medicine and is an expert on endocrinology, hormone therapy, peptides, and more.She also happens to be a kick ass Power Lifting Athlete (where she finds the time goodness only knows).   In this episode we discuss: Peptides and how she uses them with her patients and what experiences she has had. Bioregulators and Dr Bill Lawrence...

In this week's episode of "Pushing the Limits I had the privilege of interview world renown cancer researcher Professor Thomas Seyfried the author of over 150 peer reviewed publications and the author of the book "Cancer as a Metabolic Disease"   For 30 years Professor Seyfried has been in the trenches as a geneticist and biochemist studying cancer cells and working out the intricacies of how to stop them proliferating. He says there are two primary fuels that cancer cells use in their...

In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" Dr Sharik Peck introduces us to his invention the Rezzimax Pain Tuner Pro II From Stroke, to TBI, autism to migraines, vagal nerve support. From TMJ to stress reduction. This device is incredible. Dr Peck designed this for his own problems, he broke his neck as a two year old and ongoing issues then at a teenager he suffered a major stroke and was left debilitated and unable to walk and spent years rehabilitating himself. He then went onto...

In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" Lisa interviews Skin Expert Debbi Barber.  Never before on the show have I ever discussed skin care. It's not an area I have focused on but when I heard about Debbi Barber I had to interview her. For me as a woman in her mid fifties who has thrashed the hell out of her body and run thousands of kilometers across deserts I have given my skin a hard hard time and recently I have started seeing the signs of some of that damage and age. Now I...

In this weeks episode of "Pushing the Limits" Lisa interviews the Co-founder of Trudiagnostic and previous founder of Tailor Made Compounding who make peptides. Ryan Smith is an expert in both peptides and  the Epigenetic age testing. In this episode we dive deep into both of these critical areas in the longevity science game.  Learn what peptides do in the body, what they are and how they work and how you can use them to get your health on track. Then we dive into the world of Biological...

In this week episode Lisa interviews world renown stem cell scientist Dr Christian Drapeau on the power of stem cells to heal the body and how we can mobilise many more of these stems cells from our bone marrow through the use of specific botanicals that have been clinically shown to do just that and how people suffering from a myriad of disease all have one thing in common and that is low circulating levels of stem cells.   We dive into the fascinating world of stem cell science and you...

This week on "Pushing the Limit” Dr. Daniel Weber is internationally renowned as an informative and passionate speaker, traveling extensively lecturing on modern botanical medicine, psycho physical diseases, microbiome and its spectrum of diseases as well as cancer. Dr Weber has nearly 50 years experience across a wide variety of fields including  Chinese Medicine Integrated Oncology Herbal Medicine CEO of Panaxea™ International, Autoimmune diseases Botanical oncology...

This week on "Pushing the Limits" Lisa interviews the CEO of DONOTAGE an inspiring longevity focused company that has a community of over 100,000 people all not wanting to age before they have to.    What you learn in this episode   What is the difference between biological age and calendar age and how can we test for this? What are the most common practices you see the public doing that accelerates ageing? How do sirtuins play a role in longevity? What are some of the best...

In this weeks episode Jennifer Moore of Meno-me.co.nz speaks to us about peri menopause/menopause and hormone health.   Continuing on our series on "Pushing the Limits" around hormones, DUTCH Testing, Hormone Replacement Therapy and more and today we discuss alternative options for those not wanting to do HRT but who want to get the benefits supplements that can support you through this critical time of life.   If you are struggling with hormone issues then this is the episode for you. If...